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April 2006
Volume 10, Number 2
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When God Takes Aim By Rev. Dr. Harold L. Senkbeil Associate Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Missions What can you do when life crashes in? How do you keep going when everything you hold near and dear is taken from you? What happens when health is jeopardized, when you lose your job, when someone you love dies, when you face intractable physical or emotional pain? What if you feel like God is out to get you? What then? |
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Christ in Death-Christ in Life By Rev. Dr. Dean W. Nadasdy Senior Pastor - Woodbury Lutheran Church, Woodbury, Minnesota Stephanie is 15, a ninth-grader completing her final year of confirmation instruction. I had asked each student to write about the difference Jesus makes in his or her life. Stephanie stood to read her story of faith. |
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Christ in Life-Christ in Death: An Epiphany about Grace By Rev. Lance A. O'Donnell Pastor of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Van Wert, Ohio On the morning of Sunday, January 30, 2005, I had just finished Sunday services at my parish in Northwest Ohio. I received a call from my wife, Carrie, who was in the hospital because of some excruciating pains, supposedly unrelated to her pregnancy. |
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Resurrection in Light of the Theology of the Cross By Rev. John T. Pless Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Missions at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN, and Editor of For the Life of the World Magazine Death is a boundary that breaks the old Adams claim to autonomy. Our age has not been immune in the search for a way to cross over deaths ugly ditch; to break the barrier that hems us in and finally threatens us with personal extinction. |
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Preparing to Serve as a Deaconess By Jayne E. Sheafer It may not be too surprising that Rachel Thompson, a first-year student in Deaconess Studies at CTS, chose to pursue this vocation. |
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We Are His Faithful Servants By Jayne E. Sheafer I am in a place where the harvest is plentiful and the laborers are few. The blessing to be here and be part of a larger picture is awesome. |
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Professor and Six Students Spend Spring Break in Madagascar By Rev. John T. Pless Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Missions and Director of Field Education Funded with a grant from the LCMS Board for Human Care, six fourth-year seminarians and Professor John T. Pless traveled to the African island of Madagascar on an expedition of mercy. |
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